Science and Industry Highlights 1904 Global Trade And Tech
A 1904 survey notes Siam exports teak wood worth over 12 million dollars and Japan has 236 414 retail tobacco dealers. Germanys mineral products reach about 250 million with coal and iron dominant. Prof T J J Lee measures atmospheric height via sunset and blue sky fade. Steel wire exceeds 300 000 psi, strong elastic. Lancashire managers seek mills in India and Japan. A patent by L T Weiss separates non magnetic particles like gold with iron plating. Milk of lime used to extinguish coal mine fires shown effective by Inspector Kummer. Since 1904 start 23 new furnaces with 3 137 million tons ore iron yearly. 16 more under construction 1 830 000 tons yearly. Plans exist for 15 additional blast furnaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Tokio
Japan
Germany
T. J. J. Lee
Washington
Lancashire
India
L. T. Weiss
Masa
Wolfang Kummer
United States
Yarnlets Rare and Courtroom Gaffes Across Time
A vignette of a romantic exchange where a sweetheart claims to know the other's footsteps. A veniceman cites deafness as a grand jury infirmity and a Maine judge jokes about hearing only one side. An old Supreme Judicial Court scene recalls a lawyer pausing for a convulsing spectator. A note concludes with England birth-rate figures from two decades earlier.
Over Sea Habit and Postum Health Claim
A Western state reader reports nervousness heart trouble and asthma from coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee per directions, she claims full recovery and better health, crediting Postum and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
A Revolutionary Hero’s Grave in a City Cemetery
In a Louisville cemetery at Jefferson and Sixteenth streets a faded grave marker recalls Capt. Isham Talbot who died July 30, 1830, after a Revolutionary War service and Kentucky campaigns. Other stones in the lot show years 1829, 1846, 1850s, 1860s, with mature oaks and elms now bare as winter winds mourn the fallen heroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Talbot
Jefferson and
Sixteenth Streets
Louisville Courier-Journal
Doc. J. M. Talbot
Isham Talbot
Virginia
Brandywine
Germantown
Monmouth
Kentucky
Lower
Blue Licks
Nell Tullaby
Shell in log recalls Civil War fight near White Sulphur Springs
A sawmill operator near Dry Creek West Virginia uncovered a shell embedded in a log. The shell dated to the Dry Creek Rocky Gap battle in August 1863. James F. Hays notes the shell likely came from Ewings battery at Rocky Gap, fought near White Sulphur Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Gap
West Virginia
JW. Huddleston
James River
Kanawha
Dry Creek
W. Va
James F. Hays
Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry
National Tribune
Huddleston
Ewing
W. W. Averill
Samuel Jones
Echols
Patton
Averill
Daniel A. George
Samuel A. Caldwell
Simon P. Cravener
Joseph Stoughton
Robert Young
White Sulphur Springs
Greenbrier County
Funeral Blunder Leads To Army Reprimand
In a general officer's funeral a musician erred as a non first class horseman. A sergeant reprimanded him to keep one eye on the bugler the ear drum reader and the fist on the adjutant leaving no room for error.
Whistling Dick and the Union Navy Encounter at Vicksburg
In May 1863 during Grant's Vicksburg campaign a Benton gunboat faced the Confederates as Whistling Dick opened fire. Army officers aboard scrambled behind the pilot-house with naval crews to dodge the shell, exchanging wary jests about naval methods. The episode highlights the bravery of the general and the audacious river combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
The Soldier's Wife and a Civil War Scout
The column honors the soldier's wife and the man who offered himself for the land he loved. It notes Col. John Singleton Mosby, a Confederate scout born in 1833 and educated at the University of Virginia, still living and practicing law in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iife
Marriet D. Brink
National Tribune
Mosty
John Singleton Mosby
San Francisco
University of Virginia
Substitution of Tobacco Plugs in British Navy Sparks Debate
The British navy has debated replacing the traditional tobacco plug with manufactured cut tobacco. The shift has not won universal approval among sailors or officers, with concerns over habit, quality, and tradition.
Bargain seeds and seedsmen warnings in a mixed notices page
A collage of old advertisements and quips offers seeds from Salter Seed Co and bargain seed catalogues promising free fodder and 5 tons of grass, plus other items like foot care and cures. The page blends product pitches with ironic humor and short comic exchanges.
Sores vanish after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment
A year and a half old boy suffered persistent sores across the body and limbs. After two months on Cuticura Soap and Ointment the sores disappeared and the child recovered, with a note from a grateful mother praising the remedy. The text also includes unrelated travel ad copy and a cold remedy pitch.
Lost Seven Pounds Dr Page Credits Doans Kidney Pills
Dr Melvin M Page of Page Option Co Erie Pennsylvania describes heavy iced drink intake in New York 1805 leading to kidney trouble. He reports rapid weight loss from 194 to 183 pounds, an abscess threat on the kidney, and says Doan's Kidney Pills cured him with ongoing health since 1898. The ad notes 59 cents a box and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as the maker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin M. Page
Page Option Co
Erie
New York
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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George F. Haley
Biddeford
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
John A. Peters
Haley
England
James A. Greer
United States Navy
Dodd
Pai
Salebriou
Philadelpho
Xin
N. Y
W. Diemer, M. D
Springeld, Mo
Ane Chugs
Clingwater
Josiah
Chugwater
Chicago Tribe
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Howey
Cutiura
Uncle Eben
Nickel Piste Road
Trai
Nickel Plate Road
la Salle St
Chicago
Calahan
Adame
Drugeisia
E.W. Guove
Carters
Pat
Sam
Son Fite
Omcsor
A.N. Kellogg
AN. K
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
State Street
New York City
The
California Fig Syrup Co
Putnam
Monroe Drug CO
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